LOL!!! I loved the line about being an expert on McCleary's in America! I had just about figured out I was going to have to look at every McCleary and then make the best guess as to what family Jefferson came out of...Thanks for the advice.. I have looked at some of the McCleary names. I actually looked at some of them before I found Jefferson, but how do you connect them when you are missing a generation of records. All I could think to do is try to see if some first names ran generationally. Then I could make a fair guess that they were of the same line.. but that really doesn't prove anything. I never tried to Google any names yet. I'll give it a try. It would be the most wonderful gift to give my mother -in-law if I could find her ancestors. I went to an Irish free site that had lots of records, but I didn't find one McCleary. Scotland had McClearys listed under the covering of clan Cameron. Wish I had a better memory at this stage of the game. I am still trying to get a handle on the timings of the Scotts Irish upheavals. They seemed to come in waves to America, in the 1700's and early 1800's . I have been cramming so much in this 56 year old brain so fast, not all of it is staying. or staying in the right order. At least I'm exercising my brain. Thanks a bunch, . Ellie -------------------------------------------------- From: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:34 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [S-I] McClary/McCleary of NIR and early 1700's America > Ellie, > Linda is right in regards to your research needs and area of focus. I > wanted to just let you know you that your Scotch-Irish focus may not be > too > far of the beaten path. > There are 4 documented McClary families in early 1700's in New England > 1718- Thomas McClary (b.1706) from Londonderry, NIR to Windham, New > Hampshire brother of > 1718- Daniel McCleary (b. 1708 in Maghera, Londonderry, Ireland) of > Methuen, Mass. died same 1788. > 1727- Andrew McClary from Londonderry, NIR to Nottingham, NH > 1751- David McClary from Ireland, living Boston, Mass. died Bedford, NH > A John McCleary and Alexander MaClery are in Boston, Mass 1730 to 1739 > > There are online Pennsylvania records that may give you access to McClary > family info. Google is also a major FREE source. try McClary and Lancaster > and you'll find the easy ones quickly. > DON'T spend a lot of time reading every hit. Just get enough to find > proof the family was in the right place and see if you get lucky and > someone > mentions a specific family going south to VA and NC. I have the exact > same > problem in VT in 1804. Bastard or abandoned son living with Mom but who > has > no father. I did the same surname searching. So... I can state his > grandfather with about 95% proof, but can't connect to the five sons. I > may never > find it but I know it's there :) A miracle DNA match may be my only hope. > So you got the right ethnic group on face value. Follow Linda's ideas > and some general searching like above and you may hit paydirt. If not > you'll > be an expert on early McClary's in America :) > > Colin Brooks > The 1718 Project > > In a message dated 3/30/2010 12:09:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Hi Linda, thanks for taking so much time to answer my, I don't know what > to > do comment. I should have let you know why I have a snag in the McCleary > family search. I have traced them back to North Carolina during the > civil > war and even one tax list after, and then other census from then till > now, > but my snag is I can't figure out how to go further back to tie the > McCleary > family elsewhere to the one in North Carolina. The North Carolina county > courthouse where the McCleary family lived was bombed during the civil > war > and burnt down. all records lost, and then it burnt 3 more times... I > can > not seem to find who the father of Jefferson McCleary, also spelled > McClorry, and MCClary on different census papers. Not doing such a hot > job > of figuring out who his wife is either. she must have been dead by the > time > the records that have survived were taken. I did read a bit of a history > book online that said a lot of Scotts that came to North Carolina > actually > came inland through Tennessee, but Jefferson lists he was born in North > Carolina. I have found records in other counties of McCleary or some > derivative thereof, but no one claims Jefferson on their family . I'm > stumped. I figured I would just suearch out every MCCleary etc I can > find > from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and I might get lucky and find > something. Right now it is guesswork. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > If I could only find that connection in the McCleary family from > Jefferson > on back. I found a Thomas Jefferson McCleary age 26 on an 1830 > Maryland > census... but my Jefferson was born in 1814, as per the 1860 census that > lists him as age 46. It calls him McClorry on that one, but it's him. > The > batches of first names in the family tie together the various census > misspellings of the last name. I even found people that may have been > his > brothers or cousins, but haven't found them back further either, yet. I > was hoping if I couldn't follow his trail, I could hit on it with > extended > family from the same area and census. The area I found them in was Cool > Springs, Washington County, NorthCarolina, Post office Mackeys Ferry, and > also Harrington County Div.2. dist. 1 N.C., and the northern district > 1850 > Census Rockeartto, County, N.C. or something like that, can't read it very > good. If you have any idea how to look back farther I'm all ears....or > in > this case eyes since we are writing, not talking. LOL. > > There are some colonial ancestors on my husbands side as well, but none > on > mine.. the hardest part of waiting so long to start hunting is I forget > what > I've found and where I found it so quickly... I am trying to document it > all > as I go along... but I have gone so many directions in such a short time > I > have well nigh driven myself crazy!!!! In your business do you only hunt > Scotch Irish, or do you hunt other countries too??? Well thanks > again... > Ellie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message